Snakes have adapted to nearly every continent on Earth, thriving in a range of habitats, from steaming rainforests to arid ...

Last week, I answered a question about coral snakes. In this column, I discuss the largest group of venomous snakes found in the Southeast — pit vipers. The Southeast is home to copperheads, ...

Few places in the world are more dangerous than Ilha da Queimada Grande — the Brazilian island where venomous vipers rule the land and only a few researchers are ever allowed. Despite their fearsome ...

A man in eastern China suffered a near-fatal snakebite last week when he tried to catch a pit viper to make "snake wine." The 63-year-old, identified by his last name Yu, underwent several hours of ...

When one imagines snakes, the mind often wanders to sunny, lush places: jungles, deserts, tropical forests. But nature loves ...

“They are the ones that have to be able to strike as quickly as possible,” says Alistair Evans, a zoologist at Monash University in Melbourne. It typically takes mammals between 60 to 400 milliseconds ...

In nature, many animals mimic others, for a variety of purposes. Now scientists have uncovered the latest example of this peculiar ability—finding that the Congolese giant toad mimics the appearance ...